Saying the Environmental Protection Agency is overstepping its bounds with a new methane emissions rule, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a coalition of 24 states asking the federal courts to stop it from going into effect.
At issue is the EPA’s “Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review.”
Gentner and the coalition have filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to stay the rule while a previous petition is considered.
According to the filing, the rule imposes expensive and unjustified new technology and monitoring requirements; imposes new storage and transportation requirements; adds new source performance standards; and creates a “Super Emitter” program that third-party environmental advocacy groups can use to harass producers.
“The new methane emissions rule is yet another attack on our oil and gas industry by the Biden Administration,” Drummond said. “I am honored to work with my colleagues from across the country to stop the economic turmoil of these rules before it’s too late.”
